1. Teaching Small Classes
New Faculty Orientation – August 17, 2016

2. Health & Human Physiology TABLE 2: Ana Rodríguez-Rodríguez
Amy Fletcher
Lecturer
Health & Human Physiology
TABLE 2:
Ana Rodríguez-Rodríguez
Associate Professor
Spanish & Portuguese
TABLE 4:
Robert Franciscus
Professor of Anthropology
TABLE 5:
Heather Sander
Assistant Professor
Geographical & Sustainability Sciences
TABLE 6:
Kenneth Gayley
Physics & Astronomy
TABLE 7:
Ahmed Souaiaia
Religious Studies & Law
TABLE 8:
Rachel McLaren
Communication Studies
TABLE 9:
Miriam Thaggert
English & Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies

3. Raύl Curto introduces our esteemed faculty …
Welcome and Thank You!!

4. Instructions for Today
Login to our ICON class account. This PowerPoint awaits you in the Module “Teaching Small Classes”. Each table will answer their question, lead by our awesome faculty! Please answer your question on the White Boards. At the top of your answers, please report your table number by writing: Table #.

5. How can I motivate students to engage in discussion?
Table #1 Question
How can I motivate students to engage in discussion?

6. Table #2 Question
How can I encourage my students to understand and follow the tenets of academic integrity?

7. What strategies can I use to assess student learning?
Table #4 Question
What strategies can I use to assess student learning?

8. Table #5 Question
What strategies will help fully engage all students—including international students for whom English is not their first language—into the classroom learning process?

9. Table #6 Question
How can I manage my “teaching time”— classroom, lab, office hours, exchanges, social media, after-class conversations — to best serve students and myself?

10. Table #7 Questions
Who are my students? How can I find out? What knowledge, skills, and learning habits do I assume they should already have acquired? What if they haven’t?

11. Table #8 Question
What strategies can I incorporate to help develop and sustain the right learning atmosphere in my class?

12. Table #9 Questions
How will the use or misuse of mobile technology help/hinder the classroom dynamic? Do I want to incorporate these devices into the learning process? If so, how?